From the Mailbag
NEW VJ AWARD ANNOUNCED Sabina Streich, Germany’s “VJ Queen” writes to me to day to announce a new VJ Award being offered by the “4th Annual Video Journalism Awards in Mainz, Germany” Mainz, as you may know, was the...
Read moreBe Afraid. Be Very Afraid….
Courtesy, “Buck” at b-roll.net Thanks, Buck, for always including me in your tag line. Our pals over at b-roll.net, the website for professional cameramen, have posted the above photo in response to a local Florida TV Station, Tampa Bay...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Texas!
“The eyes of Texas are upon you… all the live long day!” OK. It’s July in Austin, so it’s hot. Really hot. But San Antonio is providing us with tons of material to shoot. At the invitation of Texas...
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Ryan Van Duzer – Travel Channel Academy alum at work Today we are in San Antonio, Texas (home of the Alamo), where we are starting our first Texas based Travel Channel Academy. Â Ironically, I also received an email...
Read moreThat’s The Power of Video
OK. you can stay for dinner. Just don’t trash the place…. Our favorite hard rockers stopped by yesterday. Bjorn and Nitzan (he’s Bjorn and she’s Nitzan), are the lead singer and guitarist in the European rock band Drive Like...
Read moreBikini Car Wash
Not too long ago, one of our less than supportive friends (hard to believe but true), was asking ‘what happened to all the VJs from 5Takes? Are they working’. Well, strangely enough, yesterday, I ran in to Francisco Aliwalas,...
Read moreWhere Are the VJ Jobs?
OK. Spread out….. One of my favorite BBC series, Life On Mars apparently is coming to the US. I have no doubt that whatever US network picks it up will mangle it in a remake, much like The Office,...
Read moreNewspapers to Video 3
All across the country, newspapers are racing to embrace video. It makes sense. First newspapers go the web because it’s the best way for them to get their information into people’s homes. Then, the web goes to video. The...
Read moreShhhhhh…..
who? Spent all this week working with a major publishing client to convert their very well known print products to video. Can’t talk about it. Publisher says so. Then, got an email from a good friend executive inside a...
Read moreThe New Economics
Shall we dance? Billionaire Mark Cuban asks the following question on his blog: “Are content producers prepared to reduced production costs….by 88%” Cuban asks this as a rhetorical question, trying to demonstrate the almost destructive economics of video and...
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